European countries which allow/disallow home education

This is from Wikipedia (which isn't always accurate, but if it is - a few European countries allow children to be home educated!!)

EUROPE:

Austria
Status: Legal
Homeschooling is legal in Austria.

Belgium
Status: Legal
The child has to be registered as home educated and they are tested at 8, 10, 12, 14.[citation needed] The tests are new and there is still a lot of confusion on the tests and the legal situation around them.

Czech Republic
Status: Legal
Homeschooling has been legal since 2005.

Denmark
Status: Legal
It follows from § 76 in the Danish constitution that homeschooling is legal.

Finland
Status: Legal
In Finland homeschooling is legal but unusual. The parents are responsible for the child getting the compulsory education and the advancements are supervised by the home municipality. The parents have the same freedom to make up their own curriculum as the municipalities have regarding the school, only national guiding principles of the curriculum have to be followed.
Choosing homeschooling means that the municipality is not obliged to offer school books, health care at school, free lunches or other privileges prescribed by the law on primary education, but the ministry of education reminds they may be offered. The parents should be informed of the consequences of the choice and the arrangements should be discussed.

France
Status: Legal
In France, homeschooling is legal and requires the child to be registered with two authorities, the 'Inspection Académique' and the local town hall (Mairie). Children between the ages of 6 and 16 who are not enrolled in recognized correspondence courses are subject to annual inspection.
The inspection is carried out to check that the child's knowledge has progressed as a comparison from the previous inspection; sometimes it involves written tests, though those are illegal, in both French and Mathematics, the first of which is used as a benchmark to check what level the child is. The tests are carried out with the anticipation that the child will progress in ability as she/he ages, thus they are designed to measure development with age, rather than as a comparison to say a school child of a similar age.[citation needed]

Germany
Further information: Homeschooling in Germany
Status: Illegal
Homeschooling is illegal in Germany (with rare exceptions). Children cannot be exempted from formal school attendance on religious grounds. The requirement for children from an age of about 6 years through the age of 18 to attend school has been upheld, on challenge from parents, by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Penalties against parents who force their children to break the mandatory attendance laws may include fines (around €5,000), actions to revoke the parents' custody of their children, and jail time.

Greece
Status: Illegal

Hungary
Status: Legal
The Hungarian laws allow homeschoolers to teach their children as private students at home as long as they generally follow the state curriculum and have children examined twice a year.

Republic of Ireland
Status: Legal
From 2004 to 2006, 225 children had been officially registered with the Republic of Ireland's National Education Welfare Board, which estimated there may be as many as 1500–2000 more unregistered homeschoolers. The right to a home education is guaranteed by the Constitution of Ireland.

Italy
Status: Legal
In Italy, homeschooling (called Istruzione parentale in Italian) is legal but not common: children must be registered to the school where they will take their final exams, and parents must justify their decision to homeschool their children at the beginning of every year.

Netherlands
Status: Generally Illegal
In the Netherlands every child is subject to compulsory education from his fifth birthday. The exemptions are extended on the basis of a clause in the law exempting parents from sending their child to school if they object to the "direction" of the education of all schools within a reasonable distance to their home.

Norway
Status: Legal
Homeschooling is legal.

Poland
Status: Legal
Homeschooling is legal.

Portugal
Status: Legal
Homeschooling is legal.

Russia
Status: Legal
The number of homeschoolers in Russia has tripled since 1994 to approximately 1 million. Russian homeschoolers are attached to an educational institution where they have the right to access textbooks and teacher support, and where they pass periodic appraisals of their work. The State is obliged to pay the parents cash equal to the cost of educating the child at the municipal school.

Slovenia
Status: Legal
The number of people homeschooling in Slovenia has been increasing over the years.The Slovenian term for homeschooling is "izobraževanje na domu".

Slovak Republic
Status: Legal
Homeschooling is legal with obstacles in Slovak Republic. Child's tutor is required to have a degree with major in primary school education.

Spain
Status: Generally illegal
In Spain, homeschooling is illegal. However, the regional government of Catalonia announced in 2009 that parents would be allowed to homeschool their children up to 16 years.

Sweden
Status: Generally illegal
Children have to attend school. Homeschooling is allowed when attending school would be obviously unreasonable.

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o It is not technically illegal. It is, however, very difficult to get approved by the county in which one lives. Stockholm is in general more difficult to get approval than elsewhere in the country. Sweden is currently working on a law that would restrict homeschooling even further. Currently there are about 100 families that have been allowed to homeschool by their county. http://www.rohus.nu/?English_information

United Kingdom
See also: Education Otherwise and Schoolhouse Home Education Association
Status: Legal (England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own education laws each with slight variations regarding education otherwise than at school.)
Education provided outside a formal school system is primarily known as Home Education within the United Kingdom, the term Homeschooling is occasionally used for those following a formal, structured style of education – literally schooling at home. To distinguish between those who are educated outside of school from necessity (e.g. from ill health, or a working child actor) and those who actively reject schooling as a suitable means of education the term Elective Home Education is used.
The Badman Review in 2009 stated that "approximately 20,000 home educated children and young people are known to local authorities, estimates vary as to the real number which could be in excess of 80,000."